Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [was/were] [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Official attendance at Windsor Park was 6,500 but gate receipts for the international reflected a crowd of 9,000 ! |
| 2 | But Martin and Gary Kemp were magnificent as Ron and Reggie in The Krays and , while Martin recently did some fine work on British television in Growing Rich , Gary seems poised on the edge of Tinseltown glory . |
| 3 | Konrad Adenauer was adamant that West Germany was the only true Germany , bitterly opposed the Soviet action and , under the ‘ Hallstein doctrine ’ , broke off relations with those countries — like Yugoslavia in 1957 ( but excluding Russia ) — who recognised East German sovereignty . |
| 4 | Of Callejas 's new Cabinet , also sworn in on Jan. 27 , Benjamin Villanueva Tábora was Economy and Commerce Minister in 1977-79 and Finance Minister in 1981 ; Ramón Medina Luna had been a Deputy Economy Minister ; Manlio Martínez had served on a previous occasion as Planning Minister ; Col. Francisco Zepeda Andino had served as Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force ; and Rodolfo Rosales Abella of the opposition PLH had served briefly as Labour Minister in the last few months of the presidency of José Simeon Azcona . |
| 5 | Mr Dodd 's case failed but Miss Shearer was successful although tribunal chairman Lionel Brown said she had contributed 50% to her dismissal . |
| 6 | Mr Dodd 's case failed , but Miss Shearer was successful although tribunal chairman Lionel Brown said she had contributed 50% to her dismissal . |
| 7 | When David Watson was satisfied that Crawford had the coordination , timing and confidence to do the jump , he stood aside . |
| 8 | And that winter , if Eachuinn Odhar was sick and Lachlan was judge , the accused quailed . |
| 9 | The News Chronicle 's Alan Dent was convinced that Ken was the show 's ‘ mainstay ’ ( the Sunday Express said he was the ‘ main prop ’ ) ‘ an impish sprite who does many unaccountable , inscrutable and impish things ’ . |
| 10 | WUS and educational assistance to South Africa WUS International and WUS(UK) have a long history of supporting the efforts of the black majority of South Africans to overcome the educational discrimination which is an integral part of apartheid . |
| 11 | On May 16th Dr Kevorkian was present when Ronald Mansur , who had terminal bone and lung cancer , killed himself by breathing carbon monoxide from a portable tank . |
| 12 | Hampshire players were staggered when Smith told them that Waqar had said : ‘ I 'm going to ******* kill you , you **** . ’ |
| 13 | The floor of the North Sea was dry and peat was forming on it , as the Post-glacial rise in sea level had flooded neither the floor of the North Sea nor the Fens . |
| 14 | At the end of it , Robert Kennedy was dead and McCarthy was defeated in the nervousness that engulfed American politics , leaving Hubert Humphrey to battle for the White House with Richard Nixon . |
| 15 | Blakey won his first two Test caps on this tour in similar circumstances — first at Madras when Graham Gooch was ill and Atherton was again ignored , and then at Bombay when Neil Fairbrother was unwell . |
| 16 | Berlin might become important in the future but its great age was in the 1920s , when East Germany was rich and clients came from Scandinavia and Russia . |
| 17 | A spokesman for the department said the United States was convinced that Libya was building chemical weapons manufacturing and related facilities . |
| 18 | The East Herts club were well-represented as Davis 's club-mate , David Hamilton , an England cap , was also in the leading group on 115 . |
| 19 | School had started , but Mrs Constantine was aware that Jenna was not ready to go back yet . |
| 20 | The effect of this announcement on Mrs Frizzell was all that Mrs Stych could have desired . |
| 21 | On judicial creativity Professor Griffith was worried that judges ' emotional and personal prejudices became , perhaps unconsciously , a part of their decision-making process , and therefore lacked impartiality . |
| 22 | Saw Henry IV , Part I. Rich was magnificent and Sybil delightful . |
| 23 | Finally , the UK contingent were adamant that transsexuality was not acceptable , and this really created a lot of bad feeling , as the transsexual in question was one of the main organisers of the campaign . |
| 24 | There 's an old lady living next door to what used to be the Armitage house ; she was there when Mrs Armitage was alive and Inez was her companion . ’ |
| 25 | He and Auntie Lou were thick as thieves at the moment . |
| 26 | When they came back Auntie Lou was red-eyed but Mr Evans seemed almost cheerful . |
| 27 | The traditional colours used in Madeiran houses were white or cream walls , stonework or pale grey paintwork around the windows and doorways , dark green shutters , gates and doors and red tile roofs . |
| 28 | Frank T. Daugherty was confident that Cosmopolitan-MGM 's The Voice of the City would please audiences anywhere not least because the director 's ‘ crooks , cops , dips , dope-heads , con-men and gang leaders live and move with startling and entertaining reality ’ . |
| 29 | Simone de Beauvoir was convinced that Nizan 's confrontation with the reality of the Soviet experiment had been a profoundly disorientating experience for him : " Nizan was deeply disturbed to discover that out there , as here , everyone died alone and knew it " , she noted . |
| 30 | The Merseyside convener was aware that President Nate Cocello was coming to the UK for talks with British and European management . |